Coco 2 is coming to life.

At the studio’s D23 fan event on Friday night, Benjamin Bratt was on hand to announce he would reprise his role as Ernesto de la Cruz in the sequel, which would be set a few years after the first film and see lead character Miguel as a teenager.

While to most fans the character is a hero, Bratt joked that “to some, he’s a little menace who ruined a career and destroyed a legacy. Ernesto de la Cruz is back for revenge, sending Miguel on an adventure back to the Land of the Dead.” The actor also revealed that the sequel is set for a November 2029 release.

The studio also revealed it would launch the original film the new original Pixar movie Ghost Market, about ghosts and a content creator who goes to Hawaii and discovers the crossroad of the living and the dead. It is expected for 2028. The clip showed a teenager wandering around the store as ramen bowls float into the air and come crashing down around the room. No cast or director was revelaed.

As for Coco 2, former Disney CEO Bob Iger first announced that it was in development last year, saying the movie was in the early stages and a theatrical release was set for 2029. The sequel will bring back members of the creative team from the original film, including director Lee Unkrichn and co-director Adrian Molina, and Mark Nielsen (of Toy Story 4 and Inside Out 2) will produce. 

“While the film is just in the initial stages, we know it will be full of humor, heart and adventure, and we can’t wait to share more soon,” Iger said at the time. 

The original film was released in 2017, following a 12-year-old boy who dreams of becoming a musician and is accidentally transported to the Land of the Dead. While there he seeks out his great-great-grandfather, a deceased musician, to help him convince their family to allow him to play music. Anthony Gonzalez, Gael García Bernal, Bratt and Edward James Olmos led the voice cast.

Coco went on to win two Academy Awards for best animated feature and best original song, “Remember Me,” written by Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez. The sequel is not the only Coco expansion the company has in the works, as Disney is also planning a Coco attraction that is slated to come to Disney California Adventure.

At D23, Disney showed off the first footage from “The New Simpsons Movie,” which is headed to theaters next September.

And the footage was, thankfully, hilarious. A riff on “The Natural” (much like the iconic Season 3 episode “Homer at the Bat”), it shows that there is still plenty of gas in the “Simpsons” tank – particularly for movies.

The “New Simpsons Movie” footage showed Homer and the gang at a baseball game as they chase a runaway ball. Eventually the entire town is going for the ball, which goes into Moe’s Tavern, where his pickled eggs are mistaken for the ball. The chase continues – through an ER, down the street, into the Duff Brewery. The ball winds up in a giant tank of beer, with Homer chasing it through the refinery and eventually getting blasted out of a smokestack.

Homer winds up back in the baseball stadium, with Bart casually picking up the ball. Cue an enraged “D’oh!” — not only from Homer but from everyone who chased the ball with him.

The footage was mostly storyboards, mostly in color, but with temp music. At one point, you could hear a particularly memorable cue from Jan De Bont’s “Speed.”

The sequel was announced back in September 2025 with the tagline “Homer’s coming back for seconds.” By the time of its release, “The Simpsons” will be ready for its 39th season.

The original “Simpsons Movie” arrived in theaters on July 21, 2007. It grossed $536.7 million globally. In that film, Bart wrote on the chalkboard in the iconic opening credits gag that he “will not wait 20 years to make another movie.” Unfortunately, he ended up waiting 20 years and some change. Back to the chalkboard, Bart!

“The New Simpsons Movie” arrives on September 3, 2027.